Five bullet points (mostly) about recently consumed media

[lisefrac]

1. As I've written elsewhere, I've started listening to Welcome to Night Vale. (Only two years late! I'm improving!) Everyone who said it was up my alley, you can feel smug. If I doubted a little bit, it's because so often when people tell me something is Lovecraftian, they are... well, wrong. Adding a tentacled beastie does not supernatural horror

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[queenoftheskies]

Have you participated in Camp NaNoWriMo before? I've done the November NaNo, but never Camp NaNo, and am considering it this year. I think I need the push.

[lisefrac]

I have done it before. It's fun, although I've always been in cabins with less active people. The NaNo IRC chat goes year-round, though, and you can usually get a word war going there--so there's that form of support, too. I think I will also try to organize some Google Hangouts for word wars and whatnot with folks who want to participate.

Executive summary: join me!

[queenoftheskies]

Oh, fun! That sounds like just what I need.

I'd love to join you!

[lisefrac]

All right, then! If you sign up on the Camp NaNo site (you can use your NaNo login), and let me know your username, I can send you an invite.

[laurion]

*sigh* I actually stopped listening to Night Vale. I kept waiting for some sort of narrative thread to emerge, but it turned into just a regular dose of weirdness, and I get enough unstructured oddities as it is.

Very lovecraftian, agreed, and beautifully written and made. But I have too little attention for things that can't hold it.

[lisefrac]

That's fair. I guess I didn't have much of an expectation of a long-running narrative thread? So I'm perfectly happy to mainline weirdness in small doses, and to simply enjoy the recurring characters and themes.